Staff Software Engineer / Lead Software Engineer

About Cba (CommBank Careers)

• See yourself in our team EC Technology builds the capabilities that support the detection and investigation of fraud and financial crime.
• The broader Group Security function brings together cyber security, fraud technology, fraud management, investigations and resilience to safeguard the bank and protect customers.

Working with us

• At CommBank, we're committed to creating an accessible, inclusive and respectful workplace.
• We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.

Responsibilities

• Work across the full product surface, solving complex problems while influencing design and uplifting engineering capability.
• Help modernise shared platforms and responsibly embed AI and agentic capabilities into critical investigation workflows.
• Do work that matters Join EC Technology and help engineer the platforms that detect and investigate financial crime across the bank.
• You’ll work hands-on across services, APIs, data integration and the interfaces used by detection and investigation teams.
• As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be a key technical contributor who ships production code, shapes design decisions and helps other engineers grow.
• You’ll help modernise our technology by reusing and standardising shared capabilities, reducing duplication and retiring legacy solutions where appropriate.
• You’ll also help build reliable AI and agentic capabilities that augment human decisions while maintaining appropriate controls.
• Design, build and operate production services and APIs with clear contracts and integration boundaries.
• Contribute to architecture and design decisions, including refactoring, modularisation and performance improvements.
• Consolidate capabilities onto shared platforms and treat the retirement of legacy technology as core engineering work.
• Build and maintain continuous integration and delivery pipelines, automated testing and progressive delivery practices.
• Establish strong reliability and observability through dashboards, alerting, service-level objectives and operational ownership.
• Engineer secure and dependable AI and agentic features, including orchestration, evaluation and guardrails.
• Embed security, privacy, reliability and regulatory controls into design and delivery.
• Raise engineering standards through thoughtful code reviews, pairing and clear technical reasoning.
• Bring strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, concurrency and system design.
• Full-stack capability, including experience with React and TypeScript or equivalent technologies, as well as backend-for-frontend layers Understand cloud-native delivery, containers, automated pipelines and production observability.
• Apply a platform mindset by reusing proven capabilities, reducing unnecessary duplication and simplifying technology estates.
• Build security, privacy, reliability and risk controls into solutions from the outset.
• Learn new languages, frameworks and tools according to the needs of the problem.
• Improve engineering outcomes through collaboration, mentoring, code review and well-reasoned design decisions.

Requirements

• We’re interested in hearing from people who: You’re a versatile software engineer with strong computer science foundations and the confidence to work across technologies as the problem changes.
• You combine hands-on delivery with sound technical judgement, take ownership of production outcomes and help create an environment where engineers can do their best work.
• Have experience across backend services, APIs and data integration, with openness to contributing to internal user interfaces when required.
• Can design and build services using a modern typed language such as Java, Kotlin, Go or Python, or comparable technologies.
• Exposure to technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, React, TypeScript, Kafka, Grafana or Prometheus will be useful.
• Experience building or operating AI-enabled systems, including model integration, orchestration, evaluation and guardrails, would also be valuable.
• Equivalent tools and transferable experience are welcomed.

Support and adjustments

• If you require support or adjustments, please let us know.
• We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and we're particularly committed to making a positive difference for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
• For support, please contact 1800 989 696.

How to apply

• If this sounds like your next opportunity, apply today.
• If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application.

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